June 20, 2015
3:19 p.m.
On 20 Jun 2015 21:11, "Alex Balashov" <abalashov at evaristesys.com> wrote:
The law of conservation of mass and energy applies to commercial
solutions vendors, too; they also need to retain in-house talent and solve problems. As it happens, they often do a worse job of this (while charging more) because their staff do not benefit from the knowledge-augmenting ecosystems of Google, conferences, books, etc. On the other hand, they have more firm control of all the components.
The clever ones get support contracts for core open source software from the open source software project in order to keep it alive. That's how it works and these guys don't get that. Or they pay for a full time dev of their staff that sits in said project. Gavin.